View source for Belarusian Agrarian Party

{{Short description|Political party in Belarus}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2020}}
{{Infobox political party
| name             = Belarusian Agrarian Party
| logo             = [[File:Logo of the Belarusian Agrarian Party.svg|200px]]
| abbreviation     = BAP (English)<br>БАП
| colorcode        = {{party color|Belarusian Agrarian Party}}
| leader           = [[:be:Міхаіл Іванавіч Русы|Mikhail Rusy]]
| founder          = [[Syamyon Sharetski]]
| founded          = June 13, 1992
| dissolved        = August 2023
| ideology         = [[Agrarian socialism]]<br>Pro-[[Lukashenko]]
| headquarters     = 7th«A» Building, Fabriciusa St, [[Minsk]], [[Belarus]]. 220007
| national         = [[Republican Coordinating Council of Heads of Political Parties and Public Associations|RKSKPPGA]]
| country          = Belarus
| native_name      = Белорусская аграрная партия<br>Беларуская аграрная партыя
| native_name_lang = ru/be
| seats1           = {{Composition bar|0|110|hex={{party color|Belarusian Agrarian Party}}}}
| seats1_title     = [[House of Representatives of Belarus|House of Representatives]]
| seats2_title     = Local seats
| seats2           = {{Composition bar|0|18110|hex={{party color|Belarusian Agrarian Party}}}}
| newspaper        = 
| youth_wing       = 
| membership_year  = 2009
| membership       = 8,500
| position         = [[Left-wing]]
| european         = 
| colours          = {{color box|#E50111|border=darkgray}} [[Red]]<br>{{color box|{{party color|Belarusian Agrarian Party}}|border=darkgray}} [[Green]]
}}
{{Socialism in Belarus}}
The '''Belarusian Agrarian Party''' ({{langx|ru|Белорусская аграрная партия|Belorusskaja agrarnaja partija}}; {{langx|be|Беларуская аграрная партыя|Bielaruskaja ahrarnaja partyja}}) was an [[agrarian socialist]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://parties-and-elections.eu/belarus.html|title=Belarus|last=Nordsieck|first=Wolfram|date=2019|website=Parties and Elections in Europe|access-date=24 November 2019|archive-date=3 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180903231947/http://www.parties-and-elections.eu/belarus.html|url-status=live}}</ref> [[list of political parties in Belarus|political party]] in [[Belarus]]. It supported the government of [[Alexander Lukashenko]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.europeanforum.net/country/belarus |title=  Belarus|accessdate=21 January 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141002082411/http://www.europeanforum.net/country/belarus |archivedate=2 October 2014 }}</ref> The leader of the party was Mikhail Rusy, who succeeded Mikhail Shimansky on 15 March 2008.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://euroradio.fm/novym-starshynyoy-agrarnay-partyi-abrany-mihail-rusy|title=Новым старшынёй Аграрнай партыі абраны Міхаіл Русы|last=|first=|date=15 March 2008|website=euroradio.fm|language=be|trans-title=Mikhail Rusy elected as the new chairman of the Agrarian Party|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151126040101/http://euroradio.fm/novym-starshynyoy-agrarnay-partyi-abrany-mihail-rusy |archive-date=26 November 2015 |access-date=5 February 2020}}</ref>

In August 2023, the party dissolved itself.<ref>{{cite web |title=Провластная Белорусская аграрная партия решила самоликвидироваться |url=https://euroradio.fm/ru/provlastnaya-belorusskaya-agrarnaya-partiya-reshila-samolikvidirovatsya |publisher=[[European Radio for Belarus]] |access-date=22 September 2023 |date=9 September 2023}}</ref>

== Ideology ==
The party advocates the reform of society on the principles of [[democratic socialism]], the restructuring of the economy on the basis of private and state ownership of the means of production, including land. In agriculture it recognizes the forms: production cooperative, joint-stock company, collective and state farm, peasant farm and small enterprise.

==History==

It was created in 1992 as the '''United Agrarian Democratic Party of Belarus''' ({{langx|ru|Объединенная аграрно-демократическая партия Беларуси|Obyedinennaya agrarno-demokraticheskaya partiya Belarusi}}; {{langx|be|Аб'яднанная аграрно-демократическая партия Беларуси|Abjadnannaja ahrarno-diemokratičjeskaja partija Bielarusi}}).<ref>{{cite web |last1=Feduta |first1=Alexander |last2=Boguzkij |first2=Oleg |last3=Martinowitsch |first3=Wiktor |title=Politische Parteien in Belarus |url=http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/belarus/07072.pdf |publisher=[[Friedrich Ebert Foundation]] |date=2003 |accessdate=15 September 2020 |language=de |archive-date=30 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211030064956/http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/bueros/belarus/07072.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> On 28 January 1994, it changed its name into Agrarian Party.

At the [[1995 Belarusian parliamentary election|legislative election in 1995]], the party obtained 33 out of 198 seats.

The 1996 constitutional crisis split the party into those who supported [[Lukashenko]] and those who, together with [[Syamyon Sharetski]] (the first party chairman), remained in the [[Supreme Council of Belarus|Supreme Soviet]].

[[Syamyon Sharetski]] did not recognize the results of the [[1996 Belarusian referendum|1996 constitutional referendum]] and did not submit to the decision to dissolve the Supreme Soviet. In July 1999, as the head of the legitimate legislative body recognized by the West, [[Syamyon Sharetski]] was adopted in [[Lithuania]], where he stayed for two years. In July 2001, [[Syamyon Sharetski]] left for the [[United States]] and ceased his political activities.

On September 22, 1999, the party was re-registered.

The IV Party Congress at the end of March 2000 announced its intention to cooperate with the authorities and elected Mikhail Shimansky as its chairman.

On June 12, 2009, the Ministry of Justice of Belarus issued a written warning in connection with the fact that the party did not submit information about its activities to the Ministry.

In [[2000 Belarusian parliamentary election|2000]] and [[2004 Belarusian parliamentary election|2004]] it only gained 5 and 3 seats in the [[House of Representatives of Belarus|House of Representatives]], respectively.
In [[2008 Belarusian parliamentary election|2008]], the party was reduced to one seat. In the [[2016 Belarusian parliamentary election|2016 election]], the party lost its remaining seat. It regained a seat in the assembly in the [[2019 Belarusian parliamentary election]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://rec.gov.by/sites/default/files/pdf/2019/sved_dep.pdf|title=СВЕДЕНИЯ об избранных депутатах|last=|first=|date=18 November 2019|website=CEC Belarus|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200125083139/http://www.rec.gov.by/sites/default/files/pdf/2019/sved_dep.pdf|archive-date=25 January 2020|access-date=}}</ref>

== Electoral performance ==
=== Presidential elections ===
{| class=wikitable style=text-align:center
|-
! rowspan="2" |'''Election'''
! rowspan="2" |Candidate
! colspan="2" scope="col" |First round
! colspan="2" |Second round
! rowspan="2" |Result
|-
!'''Votes'''
!'''%'''
!'''Votes'''
!'''%'''
|-
![[1994 Belarusian presidential election|1994]]
|{{no2|[[Alaksandar Dubko]]}}
|353,119
|{{Percentage bar|5.98|hex=078780}}
|bgcolor=lightgrey colspan=2|
|'''Lost''' {{Nay}}
|-
![[2001 Belarusian presidential election|2001]]
|{{yes2|Endorsed '''[[Alexander Lukashenko]]'''}}
|4,666,680
|{{Percentage bar|75.65|hex=AAAAAA}}
|bgcolor=lightgrey colspan=2|
|'''Elected''' {{Y}}
|-
![[2006 Belarusian presidential election|2006]]
|{{yes2|Endorsed '''[[Alexander Lukashenko]]'''}}
|5,501,249
|{{Percentage bar|82.97|hex=AAAAAA}}
|bgcolor=lightgrey colspan=2|
|'''Elected''' {{Y}}
|-
![[2010 Belarusian presidential election|2010]]
|{{yes2|Endorsed '''[[Alexander Lukashenko]]'''}}
|5,130,557
|{{Percentage bar|79.65|hex=008136}}
|bgcolor=lightgrey colspan=2|
|'''Elected''' {{Y}}
|-
![[2015 Belarusian presidential election|2015]]
|{{yes2|Endorsed '''[[Alexander Lukashenko]]'''}}
|5,102,478
|{{Percentage bar|83.47|hex=008136}}
|bgcolor=lightgrey colspan=2|
|'''Elected''' {{Y}}
|-
![[2020 Belarusian presidential election|2020]]
|{{yes2|Endorsed '''[[Alexander Lukashenko]]'''}}
|4,661,075
|{{Percentage bar|80.10|hex=008136}}
|bgcolor=lightgrey colspan=2|
|'''Elected''' {{Y}}
|-
|}

=== Legislative elections ===
{| class=wikitable style=text-align:center
|-
! rowspan="2" |'''Election'''
! rowspan="2" |Party leader
! colspan="5" scope="col" |Performance
! rowspan="2" |Rank
! rowspan="2" |Government
|-
!'''Votes'''
!'''%'''
!'''± pp'''
!'''Seats'''
!'''+/–'''
|-
![[1995 Belarusian parliamentary election|1995]]
| rowspan="1" |[[Syamyon Sharetski]]
|No data
|{{Percentage bar|13.1|hex=078780}}
|New
|{{composition bar|34|260|hex=#078780}}
|New
|2nd
|{{no2|Opposition}}
|-
![[2000 Belarusian parliamentary election|2000]]
| rowspan="2" |[[Mikhail Shimansky]]
| rowspan="1" colspan="3" |No data
|{{composition bar|5|110|hex=#078780}}
|{{decrease}} 29
|{{steady}} 2nd
|{{maybe|Support}}
|-
![[2004 Belarusian parliamentary election|2004]]
|145,004
|{{Percentage bar|2.38|hex=078780}}
|{{increase}} 2.38
|{{composition bar|3|110|hex=#078780}}
|{{decrease}} 2
|{{steady}} 2nd
|{{maybe|Support}}
|-
![[2008 Belarusian parliamentary election|2008]]
| rowspan="4" |[[:be:Міхаіл Іванавіч Русы|Mikhail Rusy]]
|32,230
|{{Percentage bar|0.60|hex=078780}}
|{{decrease}} 1.78
|{{composition bar|1|110|hex=#078780}}
|{{decrease}} 2
|{{steady}} 2nd
|{{yes2|Coalition}}
|-
![[2012 Belarusian parliamentary election|2012]]
|40,488
|{{Percentage bar|0.77|hex=078780}}
|{{increase}} 0.17
|{{composition bar|1|110|hex=#078780}}
|{{steady}} 0
|{{decrease}} 3rd
|{{maybe|Support}}
|-
![[2016 Belarusian parliamentary election|2016]]
| colspan="6" |Did not contest
|{{no|Extra-parliamentary}}
|-
![[2019 Belarusian parliamentary election|2019]]
|46,785
|{{Percentage bar|0.89|hex=078780}}
|{{increase}} 0.89
|{{composition bar|1|110|hex=#078780}}
|{{increase}} 1
|{{increase}} 5th
|{{maybe|Support}}
|-
|}

==See also==
*[[Agrarian Party of Russia]]
*[[Agrarian Party of Ukraine]]

==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}
{{Belarusian political parties}}
[[Category:1992 establishments in Belarus]]
[[Category:Agrarian socialist parties]]
[[Category:Eurosceptic parties]]
[[Category:Political parties disestablished in 2023]]
[[Category:Political parties established in 1992]]
[[Category:Political parties in Belarus]]
[[Category:Socialist parties in Belarus]]
{{Belarus-party-stub}}